AIM You are going to heat limestone to make quicklime and then add water to the quicklime to make

to make slaked lime.

METHOD

Be careful of hot apparatus. Take great Calcium oxide

Wear eye protection
care picking up the gauze at the end. Calcium hydroxide

piece of
1) Place a limestone chip on the corner of a gauze on a tripod. gauze
limestone
2) Heat the limestone chip strongly. Heat it for 10 minutes. The
heating forms quicklime.
3) While the chip heats, start to answer questions 1 and 2.
4) After 10 minutes, stop the heating and let the chip cool down.
5) While the chip cools, finish questions 1 and 2. You must keep your tripod
safety spectacles on.
6) When you have finished, tip the chip into an evaporating basin and
add water a drop or two (this makes slaked lime). mat
7) Add a few drops of universal indicator to the basin to test the pH. HEAT

QUESTIONS

1) a) Write a word equation for the thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate.

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b) Write a balanced equation for the thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate.

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c) This reaction is a thermal decomposition. Explain what this term means.

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2) a) Write a word equation for the formation of calcium hydroxide.

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b) Write a balanced equation for the formation of calcium hydroxide.

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c) This reaction is very exothermic. Explain what this term means. ////////////////////

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d) Give two uses for calcium hydroxide. ////////////////////////////////

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